Black Elk passes on the power of the Earth: Black Elk's purpose and use of Lakota literary tradition in creating Black Elk speaks / Ruth J. Heflin
Speaking through others: Black Elk speaks as testimonial literature / R. Todd Wise
Black Elk's significance in American culture / Amanda Porterfield
Akicita of the thunder: horses in Black Elk's vision / Julian Rice
John Neihardt and Black Elk speaks: a personal reminiscence / George W. Linden
Black Elk and John G. Neihardt / Hilda Neihardt and R. Todd Wise
A retrospective on Black Elk: holy man of the Oglala / Michael F. Steltenkamp
A postcolonial reading of Black Elk / Dale Stover
Just what is cultural appropriation, anyway? The Ethics of reading Black Elk speaks / Frances W. Kaye
Inipi, the purification rite (sweat lodge), and Black Elk's account in The sacred pipe / Gregory P. Fields
Black Elk and the spiritual significance of Paha sapa (the Black Hills) / Alexandra Witkin-New Holy
Dakota philosophy / George W. Linden
The great vision of Black Elk as literary ritual / R. Todd Wise
The new missiology and Black Elk's individuation / Paul B. Steinmetz
Black Elk and the Jesuits / Ross Enochs
Sources and suggestions for further study of Black Elk and Lakota culture / Raymond A. Bucko